How to Track a Tag on Tumblr

By Laurel Storm

You can't track a Tumblr tag from the search results page for it; you must open the tag's page and click a link that only appears there.

Tracking a tag on Tumblr can be done only from that tag's page, not from the search results page. Tracked tags appear in a drop-down menu that unfolds when you click inside the search field. This gives you a convenient way of seeing when new posts have been made with that tag, as well as an easy way to reach that tag's page to read those new posts.

As of publication, Tumblr has a soft limit of 20 tracked tags in place. Although you can track as many tags as you want, the new post alerts in the drop-down menu stop displaying if you're tracking more than 20 tags.